Deryagin Gennadiy Borisovich
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Arkhangelsk Oblast
- Charges:
- Art. 280.3 CC RF Part 1
- Sentence:
- 12 years strict regime
- Estimated release date:
- 23 июн. 2035 г.
- Case categories:
- Scientist cases, Freedom of speech, Anti-war case
Case Description
A criminal case was opened against Gennady Deryagin, a Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, and head of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Law at SSMU, a former professor at the Department of Criminalistics, who is serving a sentence in an IK in the Arkhangelsk region on charges of sexual violence against a minor, for repeated "discrediting the RF army. It is unknown when the criminal case was initiated. The reason for the criminal prosecution was three posts by Deryagin on VKontakte, published from March 9 to June 4, 2023: The first post - from March 9, 2023, is dedicated to rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities. On April 21 of the same year, Deryagin wrote about a Russian aerial bomb that fell in Belgorod: "It's good that the bomb fell not on a house, but on the street. There was a change in military tactics - instead of "bombing Voronezh, they began bombing Belgorod. However, it's a multi-step plan, a military trick. The third publication was a repost of an old entry from June 4 with the comment: 'Soon most will be saying: what are we being punished for...?' The only publication on the pensioner's page that day is now a repost of Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech. It was under this repost that Deryagin wrote a comment: "Why do they dislike us so much and even bomb us?!" Later, many will be puzzled by how this could be?!" Where are the old prices?! We knew nothing about Putin's crimes... Ukraine attacked Russia, and we were only defending ourselves... The International Criminal Court is a Hollywood production. Earlier, in February 2023, Deryagina was fined under an administrative offense case under the article on 'discrediting the army' for 10 comments and 3 posts on VKontakte." "On November 8, 2024, the Chertanovo District Court of Moscow found Gennady Deryagin guilty and sentenced him to three years in a penal colony on charges of "discrediting" the army, and by combining this with his previous 10-year sentence for sexually motivated violence against a teenager, imposed a final sentence of 12 years in a strict regime penal colony. The court also prohibited the pensioner from administering internet pages for a year and a half after his release.
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